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| I don't get a lot of opportunities to fish muskies in the Fall, but I can be pretty flexible about when I go. So when should I go? What are your favorite conditions? Mild cold front? how much wind? does direction matter to you? cloudy? rainy? I'm interested in your opinions.
Thanks!
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Location: Northern Illinois | I go whenever I can. I have had my best luck on overcast & stormy type days.
However, I can usually move a fish if I try hard enough even on a bluebird day.
I won't let the weather dictate when I go as my chances are limited due to work
& family commitments. I enjoy being out there & look at it as a challenge. The fish
are there...am I good enough to catch one? Love it. Caught a 40" Sunday night
around 6:00 pm, sunny skies...everyone else was at home watching da bears
game.
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| I absolutely hate calm and sunny conditions, except for in the fall. A cold, but calm and relatively sunny day is as good as it gets for me. |
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| Fishing while it is snowing |
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| I've had the best luck fishing in a NW wind, preceded by a nice slow steady cooldown where the water temp drops a few degrees here and there, no stupid warm fronts...
But there is NOTHING better than a late fall day that's in the high 50's or low 60's, sunny, with no wind... Haven't had a lot of action on those days, but any day you can be warm in the sun in Oct/Nov without the hat, gloves, bibs/etc.?
All the cabins are closed down, all the tourists are gone, all the boats are gone... Nobody at the landing, nobody on the water, not a sound you can hear on the water except the sounds of nature and whatever noise you make. Nothing but the smell of decaying leaves and the animals around the shoreline...
There ain't nothing better than that!! |
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| Day after a wicked cold front moves in, sunny, not a cloud to be seen. Majority of my multiple fish days in the fall have come in these conditions. Going against the grain and doing things that "shouldn't" work is the ticket. |
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Location: MN | The day or two before that snow hits |
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Location: West Chester, OH | esoxaddict - 9/23/2013 6:46 PM
All the cabins are closed down, all the tourists are gone, all the boats are gone... Nobody at the landing, nobody on the water, not a sound you can hear on the water except the sounds of nature and whatever noise you make. Nothing but the smell of decaying leaves and the animals around the shoreline...
There ain't nothing better than that!!
Agreed!
On my bucket list: Start @ Labor Day & stay as long as I can continue to keep the cabin warm. |
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Location: Minnesota. | esoxaddict - 9/23/2013 6:46 PM
I've had the best luck fishing in a NW wind, preceded by a nice slow steady cooldown where the water temp drops a few degrees here and there, no stupid warm fronts...
But there is NOTHING better than a late fall day that's in the high 50's or low 60's, sunny, with no wind... Haven't had a lot of action on those days, but any day you can be warm in the sun in Oct/Nov without the hat, gloves, bibs/etc.?
All the cabins are closed down, all the tourists are gone, all the boats are gone... Nobody at the landing, nobody on the water, not a sound you can hear on the water except the sounds of nature and whatever noise you make. Nothing but the smell of decaying leaves and the animals around the shoreline...
There ain't nothing better than that!!
DA-NG ROIGHT!!!
Those days are splendid!!!!
Edited by Jeremy 9/23/2013 8:02 PM
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| Anytime around Cisco spawn! |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Flat calm, overcast, and COLD. |
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Location: Elgin IL | First frost of the year on the pier |
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Location: Walker, MN | When everyone else is watching the Vikings lose, I have the whole lake to myself!
A northwest wind seems to always light up my best spots. Of course I'll take calm and sunny too.
First week of MN deer hunting usually is pretty nice weather too, not too many clowns out there on the lake either.
Edited by Masqui-ninja 9/24/2013 8:28 AM
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Location: Ontario | Everyday from now on. Its a long wait til next year !! |
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| It's a day very much like today really! Bright blue sky, white fluffy pillows of clouds and sunlight that turns on the reds and yellows of leaves floating, ever so slowly, on a gentle breeze. It's the rythmic see-saw of the high bough where the eagle has just landed and he is the only audience to judge the quality of my angling. All the summer folk have gone, and the only sound are the leaves landing softly on the water and the tick-tick-tick of my Top Raider's tail. And then the water begins to swell over a large dark shadow behind my bait, suddenly it's now the pounding of my heart I'm certain will scare away a forty pounder. Then the world explodes into violent thrashing and the battle is on! Yea, that's my "favorite fall conditons!" |
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| Junkman - 9/24/2013 9:38 AM
It's a day very much like today really! Bright blue sky, white fluffy pillows of clouds and sunlight that turns on the reds and yellows of leaves floating, ever so slowly, on a gentle breeze. It's the rythmic see-saw of the high bough where the eagle has just landed and he is the only audience to judge the quality of my angling. All the summer folk have gone, and the only sound are the leaves landing softly on the water and the tick-tick-tick of my Top Raider's tail. And then the water begins to swell over a large dark shadow behind my bait, suddenly it's now the pounding of my heart I'm certain will scare away a forty pounder. Then the world explodes into violent thrashing and the battle is on! Yea, that's my "favorite fall conditons!"
Was thinking the same way. I have to drive into Detroit for work and look at Lake St Clair. Just a picture perfect day for musky fishing. |
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| First snow=magical.
I like just enough chop to break up the surface. Cloudy or sunny doesn't matter, but give me just a little wind. |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | All season long,Sunny,Sunny and SUNNY!!! My catch rate on the"perfect" cloudy/overcast days is nothing compared to bright sunshine,not a cloud in the sky days. I fish the cloudy days too but prefer the sunny ones. |
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Location: Cave Run, KY | X2 Junkman! When you work hard day in and night, just to get out of the office for that, priceless! No BS, no back stabbing, no griping, no crying to deal with, thats my fall and all other favorite condition too! |
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Location: midwest | Stable water temps in the 39-41 range with some wind. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Fall Fishing...nothing finer, can look great and nothing bagged, can look so -so and they are going...Fall Fishing, the only way I know to not experience great Fall Fishing is flat out don't show up. Numbers of days of seeing nothing, lonely, boring , long hours of NaDa...then all of a sudden the day saver shows up and the battles on. It can't be too cold to go, too windy to go or too wet to go...as far as the fish are concerned. Fall is the time of "great expectations and serious concentrations" Or like a rusty hooked buddy of mine said "If you want to dance with the grumpy big girls you just have to pay the fiddler & deal with the conditions." Honestly I have never looked at picture of a giant fish proudly held, and was able to discern in the anglers face , the nasty weather that had been tolerated all day. |
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| Rain. Cold Wet Rain |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Cold, no wind and sunny. |
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Location: Uxbridge Ontario | Late September a warm south wind sun and cloud. Late october I like a strong west wind and over cast. Novemeber, I like it calm and sunny.
Just naming the conditions of my largest fish  |
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| Right now! Pre-Turnover. Cold nights and warm days with weather moving in. Rain this weekend, I'd be fishing for the next two weeks pre-turnover. |
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Location: Ontario | This weekend could possibly be the nicest weekend of the year !! Cooler water temps and 70 degrees of beautiful sunshine. Cant wait... |
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| Thanks, Fellers! I think I've got it narrowed down to sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy or rainy with no wind or a west or northwest wind and especially when there are very few others on the water! Yep, love fall fishing, too. We get abundant perch, hungry fat walleyes, and hopefully a couple muskies to round out the season! Best of luck to all! |
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| just fish.
the only regrets you can have is if you don't go.
when the snows flying and your stuck in a drift,at least you got out.
winters suck |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Most of you guys that know me,.. Know that I fish Big V into the late fall,.. up until Ice up... The Best time of the yr. that I like to be out there is the month of November..... The weather sucks for Humans but Shines for BIG Muskies,... Most of the "fair Weather Fishermen" has packed it in.... and given up..... That's when I will be out there...
Sleet, Snow, Rain, Sunshine, and Wind are key elements to seeing and Hooking into the Largest Fish in the Lake.....
It's Erie quite,......You will hear Wolfs Hollowing in the distance, after taking down a mid afternoon dinner of Venison,... The Loons are gone, as are the Eagles, Sounds of Gunfire in the distance is a tell tell sign of a hunters success OR near miss........... I might see maybe 2-3 other people on the lake all day......... It's pretty Awesome,.......
I usually go through 2-3 pairs of gloves in a day and I have 6 rods ready, because at 23-35* air temps shnit freezes pretty quick.... Water temps are usually about 34-40* at this point,......I enjoy seeing Big Arcs on the graph in a cloud of bait fish and casting the largest lure in the Box and hooking that big girl only moments later....
It doesn't get any better than that,......Especially when you KNOW that your season will be over in a few days ,...for the next 6 months(in Mn.)
Thank God for Cave Run in March and April !
Enjoy your Fall guys,... Whatever you do !
G-Rome |
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Location: Northern Illinois | For me I gotta get out whenever I can, gotta always get some slime in the boat... Good luck this Fall, Crank |
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Favorite Fall Conditions